Trans Europe Halles (TEH) is a European based network of cultural centres initiated by citizens and artists that advocates and promotes culture, makes accessible its knowledge and encourages new centres and initiatives.

Established in 1992, ENCATC is a network of more than 100 member institutions and professionals in over 40 countries active in education, training and research within the broad field of cultural management and policy.

LabforCulture.org works with and for artists, arts and culture organisations and networks, cultural professionals and audiences in the 50 countries of Europe, as well as providing a platform for cultural cooperation between Europe and the rest of the world.

Social innovation is time and context specific, with an important articulation to local political and cultural background. It encompasses a variety of topics - from social inclusion to economy and entrepreneurship, as well as education, governance and the environment.

Aimed at professionals of centres and all kinds of cultural spaces, students from fields related to cultural management, and interested in developing projects in the field of cultural networks, both this meeting and the Spanish Network of Cultural Centres (in start-up phase right now) are envisaged as forums where participants can exchange management models, experiences and solutions to various problems, and to conceive cooperation projects with partners in Spain and across Europe.

Weimar is the European City of Culture in 1999. This provides an opportunity to take up and develop an initiative which first came to life in 1996 as part of Copenhagen’s European City of Culture program: Shortcut Europe.

Bridge between European Culture Centres (BECC) is ENCC programme dedicated to locally based workers from culture centres, and aims to facilitate their international work experience and by this, growth of the new competences and skills, crucial for providing be er service for their community and audiences.

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European Network of Cultural Centres (ENCC) unites regional and national networks across European Union, representing over 3000 cultural centres with over 40 million visitors per year.

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